When I run
mkraid /dev/md0
The output I get is ....
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sda1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB
disk 1: /dev/sdb1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB
disk 2: /dev/sdc1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB
disk 3: /dev/sdd1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB
mkraid: aborted
What step have I missed ?
My /etc/raidtab looks like this :
# Sample raid-0 configuration
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 0 # it's not obvious but this *must* be
# right after raiddev
persistent-superblock 0 # set this to 1 if you want autostart,
# BUT SETTING TO 1 WILL DESTROY PREVIOUS
# CONTENTS if this is a RAID0 array created
# by older raidtools (0.40-0.51) or
mdtools!
chunk-size 16
nr-raid-disks 4
nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/sda1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sdc1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sdd1
raid-disk 3
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